# Mox

Full-featured mail server for sending and receiving email, with IMAP, SMTP, webmail and an HTTP/JSON webapi.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/mox/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.xmox.nl
- repository: https://github.com/mjl-/mox
- docs: https://www.xmox.nl/install/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Mechiel Lukkien
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2023
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: email
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: flat-file
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: yes
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: binary download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT, MPL-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-08-19

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5928
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 26
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://www.xmox.nl (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/mjl-/mox (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://www.xmox.nl/install/ (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/mjl-/mox/blob/main/LICENSE.MIT (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/mjl-/mox/blob/main/LICENSE.MIT (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/mjl-/mox (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://www.xmox.nl (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://www.xmox.nl/install/ (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://www.xmox.nl/install/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://www.xmox.nl/install/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://www.xmox.nl/install/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://www.xmox.nl/install/ (read 2026-11-03)
- adminUi: https://www.xmox.nl/install/ (read 2026-11-03)
- contentStore: https://www.xmox.nl/faq/ (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://www.xmox.nl (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/mjl-/mox/blob/main/LICENSE.MPLv2.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://www.xmox.nl (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/mjl-/mox (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/mjl-/mox (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/mjl-/mox/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/mjl-/mox/releases (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/mjl-/mox/releases (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

Mox is a mail server that sends and receives email over SMTP and IMAP4, with a webmail interface and an admin web interface. It is written in Go and ships as a single binary that the install guide runs as a service on Linux. Applications can send transactional mail through the HTTP/JSON webapi.

## Worth knowing

The source is MIT-licensed. The Public Suffix List it bundles is under MPL-2.0. Stored messages are individual files, with an embedded index database beside them.

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